Old Dominion University is a public institution of higher education located in Norfolk, Virginia. Campus centers in Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Hampton offer graduate and continuing-education programs. The institution began in 1930 as a division of the College of William and Mary, becoming independent of the college in 1962. Old Dominion achieved university status

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